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                    <h1><b>Configure Custom WebAdmin routes</b></h1>
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                <p>
                    The current project demonstrates how to write custom webadmin routes for Apache James. This enables writing new
                    administrative features exposed over a REST API. This can allow you to write some additional features, make James
                    interact with third party systems, do advance reporting...
                </p>

                <p>
                    Find this example on <a href="https://github.com/apache/james-project/tree/master/examples/custom-webadmin-routes">GitHub</a>.
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                    Start by importing the dependencies:
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                <pre><code>&lt;dependency&gt;
    &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.james&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;james-server-webadmin-core&lt;/artifactId&gt;
&lt;/dependency&gt;
                </code></pre>

                <p>You can then write your first route using the <a href="https://sparkjava.com/">Spark Java</a> framework:</p>

                <pre><code>public class RouteA implements Routes {
    @Override
    public String getBasePath() {
        return &quot;/hello/a&quot;;
    }

    @Override
    public void define(Service service) {
        service.get(getBasePath(), (req, res) -&gt; &quot;RouteA\n&quot;);
    }
}</code></pre>

                <ul>Knowing that:
                    <li>entending <b>Routes</b>: will ensure that authentication is requested if configured.</li>
                    <li>entending <b>PublicRoutes</b>: will not request authentication.</li>
                </ul>

                <p>You can compile this example project:</p>

                <pre><code>mvn clean install</code></pre>

                <p>Then embed your route into a James server. First configure your route into <code>webadmin.properties</code>:</p>

                <pre><code>enabled=true
port=8000
host=localhost

# List of fully qualified class names that should be exposed over webadmin
# in addition to your product default routes. Routes needs to be located
# within the classpath or in the ./extensions-jars folder.
extensions.routes=org.apache.james.examples.RouteA</code></pre>

                <p>Create a keystore (default password being <code>james72laBalle</code>):</p>

                <pre><code>keytool -genkey -alias james -keyalg RSA -keystore keystore</code></pre>

                <p>Then start a James server with your JAR and the configuration:</p>

                <pre><code>docker run -d \
   -v $PWD/webadmin.properties:/root/conf/webadmin.properties \
   -v $PWD/exts:/root/extensions-jars \
   -v $PWD/keystore:/root/conf/keystore \
   -p 25:25 \
   apache/james:memory-latest</code></pre>

                <p>You can play with <code>curl</code> utility with the resulting server:</p>

                <pre><code>$ curl -XGET http://172.17.0.2:8000/hello/a
RouteA</code></pre>
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